Cisco Nexus 9000 SSH Key Management weak authentication [CVE-2019-1804]

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Nexus 9000. It has been classified as critical. Affected is code of the component SSH Key Management. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a weak authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 05/03/2019 as cisco-sa-20190501-nexus9k-sshk as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-1804 since 12/06/2018. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/03/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See 134357 and 134362 for similar entries.

Vendor

• Cisco

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• Nexus 9000

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.3

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.3
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Class: Weak authentication (CWE-287)
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Remediation: ?Recommended: no mitigation known
0-Day Time: ?12/06/2018 CVE assigned
05/03/2019 +148 days Advisory disclosed
05/03/2019 +0 days VulDB entry created
05/03/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateAdvisory: cisco-sa-20190501-nexus9k-sshk
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-1804 (?)
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Created: 05/03/2019 10:15 PM
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